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Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome: Roman Imperial Biographies

Autor Richard A. Billows
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2011
Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history.
The book is not just a biography of Caesar, but an historical account and explanation of the decline and fall of the Roman Republican governing system, in which Caesar played a crucial part. To understand Caesar’s life and role, it is necessary to grasp the political, social and economic problems Rome was grappling with, and the deep divisions within Roman society that came from them. Caesar has been seen variously as a mere opportunist, a power-hungry autocrat, an arrogant aristocrat disdaining rivals, a traditional Roman noble politician who stumbled into civil war and autocracy thanks to being misunderstood by his rivals, and even as the ideal man and pattern of all virtues. Richard A. Billows argues that such portrayals fail to consider the universal testimony of our ancient sources that Roman political life was divided in Caesar’s time into two great political tendencies, called "optimates" and "populares" in the sources, of which Caesar came to be the leader of one: the "popularis" faction.
Billows suggests that it is only when we see Caesar as the leader of a great political and social movement, that had been struggling with its rival movement for decades and had been several times violently repressed in the course of that struggle, that we can understand how and why Caesar came to fight and win a civil war, and bring the traditional governing system of Rome to an end.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415692601
ISBN-10: 0415692601
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Roman Imperial Biographies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Prologue  1. Rome and Italy in the 2nd century BCE  2. Caesar's childhood: the Social War and the Sullan Civil War  3. Caesar’s early manhood: the rise of Pompeius  4. Roman  politics in the sixties  5. The long year 59 BCE  6. The conquest of Gaul  7. Roman politics in the fifties  8. Caesar’s place in Roman literature and culture  9. The Civil Wars against Pompeius and the Optimates  10. Caesar the Dictator  Epilogue

Descriere

This thoroughly up to date English biography provides an account of Caesar’s life it is both lively and engaging, offering an imaginative recounting of actions and events, while giving a thorough coverage and analysis.